I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report.。（这个就不译了）
The Educational Testing Service has delayed the new version of its Graduate Record Examinations test. Use of the new G.R.E. General Test was supposed to begin this October. Now it will not start until the fall of two thousand seven.
教育考试服务已经推迟了新版本的GRE的发行。本来打算今年10月份开始使用的新版本GRE总测试，现在推迟到2007年秋季才开始。
The test is required to get into many graduate schools in the United States, especially in the arts and sciences.
美国的很多研究院都要求学生参加这个考试，特别是艺术类和科技类院校。
The testing service is moving to end the paper version of the G.R.E., so students take it only by computer. But officials say the problem is not enough testing centers worldwide to administer the new Internet-based version.
考试服务正在着手终止纸上版的GRE，那样学生们只能通过电脑参加考试。但是官方人员说目前的问题是全球没有足够的考试中心来实施新的网上版。
The new G.R.E. will be given only thirty times a year. Now it is given on many more days. The new test will take four hours, up from three. And it will cost more. Another difference will involve the way questions are asked on the computer-based test.
新版本的GRE考试每年将只提供30次。现在它提供更多的日子（不理解）。新的考试将会从3个小时变成4个小时。另一个区别是考试的试题将会通过电脑来给出。
Now, if a student answers a difficult question correctly, the next question becomes more difficult. The more correct answers, the more difficult the questions become.
现在，如果一个学生正确回答了一个难题，下一个问题就会变得更难。回答的越正确，问题就变得越难。
The new test will end this system for security reasons. Everyone who takes the G.R.E. on the same day will answer the same questions in the same order. Different questions will be used on the next test date.
为了安全起见，新的考试将会结束这个系统（不理解）。同一天参加GRE的人将按照相同的程序回答相同的问题。下一次考试将会使用不同的题目。
Each year about five hundred thousand students take the G.R.E. About twenty-five percent are foreign students who want to attend graduate school in the United States.
每天都有大约500，000个学生参加GRE考试。其中大约25%是那些有意向来美读研究的外国学生。
Already there are criticisms that changes in the verbal section could make the new test more difficult for non-native English speakers. E.T.S. officials say it is true that the new test asks more questions that require reasoning and understanding of the language. But they say this will better show universities which students are most prepared for graduate work.
已经有很多批评指出，对那些非英语母语的人来说，口语部分的变化将会使新的考试变得更难。ETS的官员们说，的确新的考试提出了更多需要对语言进行推理和理解的问题（有点别扭啊）。但是他们说这样将更好的告诉学校哪些学生为他们的研究工作作了最充分的准备。
As a result of the delay, many educators are advising students to take the G.R.E. before it changes in the fall of two thousand seven.
由于它的推迟，很多教育家正在建议学生们在2007年秋季考试改变之前参加GRE（听着好像有点不舒服啊）。
The delay in the Internet-based version is based on lessons learned as the testing service makes the same move with the TOEFL. TOEFL is the Test of English as a Foreign Language.
网上版的推迟是为了吸取考试服务在TOEFL改革上的学习经验（不理解）。TOEFL是把英语当作一门外语来考试。
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This VOA Special English Education Report was written by Nancy Steinbach. Read and listen to our reports at www.unsv.com.
And if you have a question about education in the United States, send it to [email protected]. We cannot answer mail personally, but we might be able to use your question on our program. I'm Steve Ember.
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